Monday, August 6, 2012

Bolt has just wonthe London Olympics 100m final clocking 9.63
seconds , in the second fastest time he has ever run,just 0.05 seconds outside his own world
record.

He made the whole
glittering field look like also-rans. Bolt had made the impossible look mundane.

Bolt's training partner
and fellow Jamaican, Yohan Blake, finished second in 9.75. American Justin Gatlin
took bronze in 9.79.

The imperiousness
with which Usain Bolt demolished the vocal doubts over his infallibility, made the
denizens of this planet wonder why did they ever doubt him. Is he still the best? Are his best years
behind him? Is he lazy? Is he too laid
back for a world class sprinter?

Usain Bolt has now
moved into the realms of living legends and arguably the greatest athlete ever.
For the 100 metres dash is the most played sport on this planet.

It is NOT some bullshit
curling ( spare me!), fencing, boat pulling, horse jumping, wind surfing, gymnastics etc,
Western nations have made and introduced to gain easy medals to show a good
medal tally and hence racial superiority.

When Usain Bolt won the
gold in the 100 metres dash of Beijing Olympics, 4 years ago, jealous Carl Lewis scuttled
his grace, frothed from his mouth and
bitched. He insinuated that Bolt (who is taller and fitter than him) , took
drugs as his timing was out of this world.

Carl Lewis, who has always been miserly with praise
for Bolt, has now lost his place in history, where Bolt now reigns supreme. Carl Lewis will do well
to remember that he won 4 gold Olympic medals at the truncated Los Angeles
Olympics of 1984, which the Eastern block ( half the world ) boycotted. These sheenless
gold medals are half size—nay—semi circular.

Bolt spake after the
race, ‘‘I’ve said it from the start:
people can talk, all they can do is talk. I tell you people that when it comes
to the championships, it’s all about business to me and I brought it.’’

Bolt usually stumbles
off the blocks in a ungainly manner .

‘‘My start wasn’t the
best but my coach already explained to me, ‘Forget about the start, you are
never a good starter’. So I looked past that and I came out there
with just one goal: to get out a good start and then the last 50 metres are
where I shine, so I just did that. ‘‘

Bolt had admitted
before the race that he had a bad back and a niggling hamstring. He was on the
quiet visiting Dr Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt in Munich, to address his bad
back related hamstring trouble.

And to add to his woes, he had to suffer the ignominy of back to back losses in the 100m and 200m to “Blake the
beast “ at the Jamaican Olympic trials.

So I am happy and
grateful for dem moment because after that I refocused and got my head together
and got in the game, so I am happy.’’

Bolt, who likes to
drive fast, too in his red Ferrari, was involved in a wee-hours car crash in
Kingston in June. ‘Superman is coming’
was London’s message to the ticket-buying public, some of whom handed over £700
for a seat. Suddenly tongues wagged and
the London message changed to: ‘Superman
is vulnerable’.

Curiosity took over
from outright worship.

At the Beijing Olympics
Usain Bolt was so laid back that he even forgot to tie his shoe laces . He has
this bad habit of switching on his after burners onlyafter the whole field is ahead of him after
the start. Still THE character-- Usain Bolt , gave us all on this planet , our
greatest moment of sporting history 4 years ago.

With the race about to
start, the sell-out 80,000-capacity crowd at the London Olympic Stadium were up
on their feet. Bolt, Gay, Blake and
Asafa Powell all lined up for unadulterated violence
on the straight runnin’ track..

Camera flashes sparkled
like glittering diamonds around the stadium as the eight contestants psyched
each other just before taking the blocks.

As the television
cameras panned each racer, the excitement reached a crescendo when they reached
Bolt in lane seven, dressed in black shorts and the yellow and green singlet of
the Jamaican team.

Usain the cool cat he
is showed no signs of nerves as he bid to replicate his gold medal showing in
the Beijing Games in 2008.

He did NOT rob the
masses of this planet of their opium.

To mass delight of
billions , he practised his DJ mixing skills, one hand raised to his ear, and
then drew laughter after drawing pretend pistols and re holstering them after
pointing them down the track.

As the starter called
them to the blocks, Bolt put a finger to his lips to hush the excitable crowd,
briefly crossing himself and looking skywards as the television zoomed in and
his picture was broadcast on the giant stadium screen.

As the 8 best
super-sprinters of the planet hunkered down, at the blocks , the electric
tension in the stadium was palpable—nay –you could cut it with a knife.

When a bottle was thrown from the crowd as Usain settled on the blocks, others were distracted but he did not notice it.

Bolt sprinting to the 50
metres mark, to arrive at his favourite
part of the race --cheeks puffing, arms pumping right along with each of those
lengthy strides.

Watch this , Usain now switches on the
transition phase--

Pulling away from the pack with every long stride, Bolt
surges ahead and overwhelms the star-studded field .

Unlike Beijing , where
he show boated the last 20 metres, at London
he even dipped at the finish for good measure. The sheer strength of the field
meant he could not celebrate from 15 metres out as he had four years ago.

If Beijing was a
conquest, London was consolidation.

He had just decimated
the star studded field.

Seven men went under 10
seconds, beating the previous record of six, achieved at both the 1991 World
Championships and 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The times for the athletes
finishing from third to seventh were the fastest ever registered for those
positions.

Had Asafa Powell not
popped his groin and limped over the line, all eight finalists would have gone
under 10 seconds for the first time in history

"I stopped
worrying about the start," Bolt said. "The end is what's
important."

After taking half a
victory lap around the track, he stopped, kissed the track and gave his
now-famous "To The World" pose, pointing both fingers in the air, as
the denizens of this planetblew their collective
minds — the second time after Beijing.

After the finish line, ever the showman, Bolt kept right on running for a victory lap that included high-fives for front-row fans, a pause to crouch down and kiss the track and even a somersault.

Bolt, as ever, was in the mood for partying - cavorting, clowning, delighting the capacity crowd with his full range of showman celebrations.

"People can talk," he shrugged afterwards, in a brief moment of sober reflection. "All they can do is talk. I brought it. I know what I need to do."

USA's Tyson Gay missed out on the podium, finishing in fourth place at 9.80. Gay was in tears following the race. "I tried maan. I tried my best. I just came up short."

America still had no answer to Usain’s speed.

Bolt now focuses on defending
his Beijing gold medals in the 200 meters and 4x100 relay. If he does that,
he'll be the first runner in Olympic history to ever defend all three “That’s
my ultimate goal," Bolt said of being a legend. "That's it for
me."

His talent was noticed
early. . In the absence of a disciplined lifestyle, he became ever-more reliant
on his natural ability to beat back the competition on the track .

Noticing the potential
, several elite American colleges offered Bolt track scholarships . But the Jamaican
small town boy from Trelawny refused them all, stating that he was content to
stay in his homeland.

I had commanded a
Chemical tanker whose home port was Kingston with crew from Jamaica. I spent 6
months of my life there.My Jamaican Second
Mate had once told me “ Everybody wants to immigrate to America. If USA opens out free immigration, the last
man will have to put off the lights in Jamaica.

Allow
me to reminisce --

At
Beijing 4 years ago, when Usain Bolt being himself, had showboated, immediately his uppity detractors including
IOC president Jacques Rogge, condemned Bolt and wanted to blackball him and
strip him off the gold medal , for showing disrespect.

They
had done it in the past for the infamous" black power salute", -- to
John Carlos and Tommy Smith ( he smashed the world record in this 200 metres
event ) in the 1968 Mexico Olympics. They were on familiar ground.

This
was just a " human rights salute" -- misinterpreted to suit the white
man's mood swings. In that era the black man was an full American with full
rights and respect only during Olympics-- and that too only the world record
holders. A devout and articulate black Catholic man could NOT even be a priest.
The ball was surely moving this ominous way..

How
dare a mangy black man misbehave in this manner-- only the white Yank like
superbrat John McEnroe can be allowed to get away with this type of bad
behaviour, right?.

Then
someone had suggested . Usain is now the people's darling.

There
will be riots within the “away from home” Chinese stadium. This Olympics will
have to be aborted , if you ever make this silly immature mistake, and you
might get a public lynching too.

The
people of this planet will NOT accept such a gross decision inflicted on this
living legend.

Jamaican
minister Edmund Barlett vigorously supported Bolt , switched himself to wisdom
mode and opined tersely " The
celebrations are appropriate. You have to see the glory of dem moment!"

Above- Lightning striking twice!

The title of "world’s
fastest man" will continue to remain humanity’s most sought after title.

5 comments:

captain sahab very good writing..... i really appreciate the way you bring out the issues.... captain after reading almost all your topics what do you say about GOd??? how were they created ??? what if Shiva ji was really a man who rose to be a mahadev because of his karma (though you have already blasted this theory of the writer AMish trivedi). After all we are pawns in the theater of GOD... how to find solace in me.. how to increase my inner strength .. how to be me??

by the way captain i am posted at a sea port in orrisa if you cross this way I would love to be your host and discuss with you lots of things.... i am so disturbed with.. what is god what is love what is death? was krishan ji really a god or just a devta..!!!

captain one last query from you,,,as told to me by my parents i do say two mantras daily,, but apart from that i always ask god for repentance of my sins and also that he give me a good future.. !!! does our prayers get answered ? does god really listens to us or its simply we are asking to no one???? does the law of attraction (we thnkng the positive then the positive coming to us) is it real??? captain i m sorry to bug u but i hope u can answer me

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